Posted on 08/26/2008 12:53:43 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
I contemplate divorce every day. It tugs on my sleeve each morning when my husband, Will, greets me in his chipper, smug morning-person voice, because after 16 years of waking up together, he still hasn't quite pieced out that I'm not viable before 10 a.m.
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Maybe one day, marriage -- like the human appendix, male nipples, or your pinky toes -- will become a vestigial structure that will, in a millennium or two, be obsolete. Our great-great-great-grandchildren's grandchildren will ask each other in passing, "Remember marriage? What was its function again? Was it that maladaptive organ that intermittently produced gastrointestinal antigens and sometimes got so inflamed that it painfully erupted?"
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I initially enthusiastically agreed with all the comments here ( morning/night person debate aside.)
After I read the article, I decided to cut her a little more slack after I got to the part where he hit her with the car. I know it was an accident, but I can understand her being slow to get over it.
So now I agree slightly less enthusiastically with the comments here. :)
Liberals don’t like marriage because they are such foul, nasty, hate-filled vermin that no one likes them. They have to meet in social settings like coffee shops where the odor of coffee outweighs their body odor and there is no commitment past the few hours at the coffee shop.
I doubt that she’s hot now...Lib women are generally bitter because they didn’t get asked to prom.
I am definitely not a morning person. My husband is even worse. He’s known to work until 3am.
My parents were morning people, and now it looks like my son is. One of my daughters is definitely not, and I’m not sure about the other one.
The only problem I have is that school is definitely not made for nightowls. My son just started high school, and he has to be there at 7:40. I hate it. What’s funny is he is up much earlier than me and is very chipper. I just need a coffee.
I think life is easier for morning people, so I’m glad my son likes the morning.
In her own mind.
9 kids, 5 married, 21 grandkids.
We ARE OUTBREEDING the liberals.
If you allow libs to educate them, though, all you are breeding are new liberals.
I think Ellen might find out why marriage is an important part of society when she thinks beyond her own selfish wants.
My husband and my daughter are the same way.
My daughter is so difficult to get her out of bed in the morning for school. Then she it is so hard to get her to finish her homework after school.
However, she gets a second wind around 8:00, and she will spend hours doing extra math or spelling worksheets in her bed. I’ll think she is in her room asleep, and then I’ll go make my rounds before I go to bed and I’ll see her light still on. It will sometimes be after 11. Of course, then she is tired the next day.
If she wanted to homeschool, I would let her sleep late (10 or 11), and then do school late for her. I think she would do great with that schedule.
“Dreaming of divorce”
Did you notice it’s always women in their 40’s. I believe it could be due to hormone imbalance (pre-menopause). I’ve seen it with people who had the best marriages, the woman just gets funny and up and leaves. Poor guy tries to figure out what the hell he did wrong. And the answer is nothing.
Just in case you are wondering, I am a 40 something female. Didnt post this to be sexist.
Someone post a picture of Peg and Al Bundy!
My wife is like your husband though, and it does have a major effect upon a marriage when the two are wildly different. In 15 years of marriage I can probably list the number of times we've gone to bed at the same time on one hand, and they were on our honeymoon. Talking before we fall asleep . . . or holding each other . . . or chatting when we wake up? Never happens.
A truly sickening and depressing article.
Representative lines:
“No. Your husband is not your best friend. Your best friend is your best friend. If your husband were your best friend, what would that make your best friend — the dog? When a woman tells me that her husband is her best friend, what I hear is: I don’t really have any friends.”
Yeesh. Somebody needs to get laid. And I don’t think her husband wants any part of that.
In a good marriage, the husband and wife are best friends. The author is just jealous of all the women who are best friends with their husbands and that’s why she feels the need to denigrate them. And only a complete idiot could make the jump from “My husband is my best friend” to “I don’t really have any friends.” Biggest logical fallacy I’ve seen in years.
What a bitter and negative person this author is. She lives an empty and miserable life and it’s a lifestyle of her own choosing. And did she even stop to think what kind of effect her article would have on her husband if he read it, or worse - if his boss read it?
The sad thing is that many men will think all women are like this and post their own bitter experiences. We’re not all like the author. I certainly have nothing in common with her.
> 9 kids, 5 married, 21 grandkids.
PRAISE THE LORD!!
Hope you are homeschooling them, too.
> We ARE OUTBREEDING the liberals.
Indeed, but they are importing their voters.
Nevertheless, the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
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